NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher praised Zylstra, noting her work at Sesame and Pinterest’s reputation as a rare corner of relative kindness in the often harsh world of social media.
The network is offering buyouts to approximately 300 employees, mostly within newsgathering desks in the newsroom.
The gifts arrive at a time of great financial strain for public media.
A District Court judge has found that a Trump White House executive order to defund NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and is therefore “unlawful and unenforceable.”
Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of illegally yielding to Trump’s demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage.
Staff at the Urbana-based station learned in an email Tuesday morning that the College of Media is removing current executive director Moss Bresnahan, moving him to an advisory role within the college.
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, died Thursday at the age of 87.
Thomas Jefferson, no fan of the press himself, once wrote that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, “and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
At NPR and many member stations, listener contributions have spiked up significantly. They are helping to make up for the cuts, at least in the short term.
NPR Morning Edition host talks early hours and the importance of public media with IPM’s Kimberly Schofield.
Shapiro began his career at NPR as an intern for Nina Totenberg. He went on to be an International Correspondent, a White House Correspondent and a Justice Correspondent.
For years, NPR’S Emily Feng criss-crossed China, bringing intimate and informative stories about the nation of 1.4 billion people, but in 2022, the country’s government said she could not report from there anymore.
The veteran news leader’s announcement comes just days after the Republican-led Congress, driven largely by President Trump’s claims of liberal bias at NPR, voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.
The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.